Tentmaking Briefs

Empowering Tentmakers to Reach the World

1.     "Going Into the World" -- John 17:18 and Mark 16:15.  Material out of a book by Watchman Nee.  God has sent us into the world to be his witnesses in the secular places where we live and work.

2.         "Lights in the Darkness" -- Matt. 5:14-16.  An overview of the Jackie Pullinger story--a young Englishwoman who moved to Hong Kong and started working there as an English teacher in a very dark (literally as well as spiritually) area of the city, and who impacted hundreds of gang members and drug addicts there.

3.         "Living the Truth" -- Acts 18:1-4.  Tentmakers as genuine, self-supporting professionals (not undercover mission agency employees), living as the ones that they minister to.  1 Cor. 9:19-23. 

4.         "Every Christian A Minister" -- Heb. 6:10, 1 Cor. 12:18, 2 Cor. 5:18-6:1.  We are all ministers.  The ministry is not limited to paid church workers.

5.         "The Gospel is Free!" -- 1 Cor. 9:18.   More on Jackie Pullinger, how people were amazed she wasn't supported  by a mission organization, and how that influenced her ministry in a phenomenal way.

6.         "Dependency" -- 2 Cor. 8:3.  articles on dependency and talk about how tentmaking can eliminate this major problem in cross-cultural evangelism.

7.         What's the difference between tentmaking and business as mission?

8.         Full-time Disciples: Demonstrating the Gospel

9.         Culture/Contextualization

10.     Independent House Churches

11.     Tentmaking Tips

12.     Fishers of Men, Hunger for God

13.     Seeker Bible Studies

14.     Inductive Bible Study Techniques

15.     Hospitality

16.     Discipleship Bible Studies

17.     Finding Work

18.     Developing Bible Knowledge

19.     Rapid Multiplication

20.     Developing Study Skills

21.     Prayer Life

22.     Walking with God

23.     The Message of Salvation

24.     Church Planting

25.     Ultimate Goal of Tentmaking